The moral case against the Kyoto and Global Warming bunch.

David Warren, in this column, makes the moral case against the Kyoto protocol and the Climate Change crowd who want to impose a regulatory regime on the world that seeks to "guide us to a less carbon-choking future."   It makes no sense, says Warren that " "market forces" must be resisted ... to achieve a moral end."  "What all regulatory regimes end up doing", says Warren, "is punishing virtue and rewarding vice."

David Warren also says:

the planet is being poisoned, on an unprecedented scale, by the kind of crude and irresponsible industrialization that is encouraged by authoritarian, centralized regimes. (Mainland China comes to mind.)

Exactly the point I made a few weeks ago in response to a comment made about my "What will Al Gore do about the Chicoms."  Apparently, Al Gore was only chiding the Americans.  China had a grip on fixing its environmental problems....